Utility of iodine overlay technique and virtual unenhanced images for the characterization of renal masses by dual-energy CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Song, Kyoung Doo ^a   Kim, Chan Kyo ^a   Park, Byung Kwan ^a   Kim, Bohyun ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual energy CT; Iodine overlay technique; Radiation exposure; Renal mass; Virtual unenhanced

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RENOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82455203955     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6922     Document Type: Article

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